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What is "Marie Kondo"? Leave alone used as a verb.

• rwwmike 4y ago
  Author here. Yep, someone's name, verb-ified. I fully get the pet peeve against this sorta thing, but we went there nonetheless. :)
• unwind 4y ago
  Marie Kondo [1] is a Japanese organizing (not organization) consultant, author and tv presenter. She is known for (rather intense) minimalism, and the saying "does it spark joy?" which you are supposed to use to filter out what things you should keep. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Kondo
  • rwwmike 4y ago
    Thanks for the much-more-useful explanation here. I thought the question was a complaint about verbing a name, not being unfamiliar.